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child-centered

child-centered adjective: of education or parenting: focused on each child's individual needs and personality, rather than instilling the same knowledge, morality, etc. into all children.

Adjective

child-centered

  1. (Canada, US) Of education or parenting: focused on each child's individual needs and personality, rather than instilling the same knowledge, morality, etc. into all children.

Questions about child-centered

What does child-centered mean?
Child-centered means of education or parenting: focused on each child's individual needs and personality, rather than instilling the same knowledge, morality, etc. into all children.
What part of speech is child-centered?
Child-centered is an adjective.

Words near child-centered in the dictionary

  1. child-beds
  2. child-birth
  3. child-births
  4. child-bride
  5. child-brides
  6. child-centered
  7. child-crowing
  8. child-directed speech
  9. child-free
  10. child-fucker
  11. child-fuckers

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